ETC Ion Xe 20

Features

• 2,048 or 12,288 outputs
• 32,768 control channels (any number from 1 - 99,999)
• Up to 99 discrete users
• Partitioned control
• Master playback pair with 100mm faders
• 20 45mm faders x 100 pages for configurable faders, submasters, masters and grandmaster control with two associated high-contrast monochrome LCD displays
• User-definable direct selects
• Four discrete palette types (IFCB)
• Presets function as “all palette”
• Effects provide dynamic relational and absolute progressive behavior
• Central information area (CIA) accesses the browser and other controls
• Four pageable encoders for non-intensity parameter control
• Configurable high-density channel display, with format and flexi-channel modes
• Up to six abstract color spaces, tinting, spectrum and fadepath tools.
• User configurable, interactive Magic Sheets
• ETCNet2 and Net3 (powered by ACN), ArtNet and Avab® UDP network output protocols
• Show import from Obsession, Express, Expression®, Emphasis®, Congo®, Cobalt®, Grand MA1, Grand MA2, Avab Safari and Strand 500/300 Series
• Two individually configurable Ethernet ports•
• Multiple MIDI and/or SMPTE TimeCode Inputs, Analog/Serial
• Inputs, OSC transmit/receiver
• Virtual Media Server function for pixel mapped effects, images, animations

Specifications

• 2,048 or 12,288 Outputs
• 32,768 Control Channels (devices)
• 10,000 Cues
• 999 Cue Lists
• 200 Active playbacks
• 999 Submasters
• 100 Fader Pages
• 4 x 1,000 Palettes (Intensity, Focus, Colour, Beam)
• 1,000 Presets (all palette)
• 1,000 Groups
• 1,000 Effects (relative, absolute or step)
• 99,999 Macros
• 1,000 Snapshots
• 1,000 Curves
• 1,000 Colour Paths
• Supports two external display-port monitors at 1280x1024 minimum resolution, with optional touch or multi-touch control
• Solid-state hard drive
• Five USB ports for flashdrives, pointing devices, keyboard

• All show data may be viewed on a single external monitor. External views may be posted separately or expanded across a maximum of two monitors. Three user-configurable workspaces per display, with split-screen/sizing controls.
• The Central Information Area accesses:
  • Browser
  • File Management
  • System Defaults
  • Show Defaults
  • Desk Defaults
  • Partition Definitions
  • Network Configuration
  • Show Data Utilities
  • Print to PDF
  • Record Target Lists
  • Patch functions
  • Help
  • Electronic alpha-numeric keyboard
  • Command Line
  • Selected Cue
  • Error messages
  • Context-Sensitive Control
  • Parameter Categories and individual parameters
  • Filters
     
• Channel Displays 
  • Live channel or table view
  • Blind cue, palette, preset and group views, in list, channel, table and spreadsheet formats
  • User-configurable to show required parameters and/or parameter categories (IFCB)
  • Flexi-channel to determine which channels to display
  • Zoom allows user to define how many channels are viewed
  • Color-coded intensity levels indicate direction of move
  • Colour-coded non-intensity levels indicate change from previous state
  • Graphic differentiation of moving lights, single parameter devices and unpatched channels
     
• Magic Sheets
  • User-defined interactive display layouts
  • Objects and images may be imported
     
• Patch Views
  • Patch by channel
  • Patch by address
  • Patch by Device List (RDM)
  • Assign proportional patch value, curve and, preheat value for intensity
  • Swap pan and tilt
  • Invert pan and tilt
  • Custom fixture editor
  • User configurable shutter order
     
• Playback Status Display
  • Accesses status of 100 fader pages
  • Expanded cue list for selected cue, optional dynamic countdown of active cues
     
• Cue List Index
• Effect Editor
• Group Editor
• Park Display
• Dimmer Monitoring
• Submaster List
• Fader Config Display

• Master Playback crossfade pair with two 100mm potentiometers, Go, Stop/Back and Load
• 50 pages of 20 45mm faders, each configurable as:
  • IFCB Palette/Preset Lists or single instances
  • Cue Playback, with user-configurable button/slider behavior
  • Grand Master with Blackout
  • Additive or Inhibitive Submaster, with user-configurable button/slider behavior
  • Filtered Manual Timing Master
     
• Rate Controller
• Playback fader controls include:
  • Load to assign cue lists
  • Timing Disable
  • Off/On
  • Release
  • Freeze
  • Assert
  • Manual Override
  • Rate
  • Go To Cue 0
  • Spread
  • Background Enable/Disable
  • 10 Priority States
  • 10 Background Priority States
  • Parameter and channel filters
     
• Macros
  • May be set to play background or foreground
  • Startup and Shutdown Macros
  • Disconnect Macros

• Channel selection from keypad and/or multi-touch direct selects
• Lists constructed with +, -, thru
• Intensity set with level wheel, keypad, level button, full and out
• Select Last recalls last sequential channel selection set
• Select Manual selects all channels with manual values
• Select Active selects all channels with intensity above zero
• Ordered groups
• Offset; including even, odd, random and reverse
• Fan
• Sneak
• User-definable home
• Home by parameter, parameter category or all non-intensity parameters
• Capture
• Park at level
• Scaled park for temporary percentage adjustment
• Recall-from and Copy-to commands
• About provides detailed view of selected channels or record targets
• Undo
• Highlight and Lowlight, with optional user-definable Rem Dim
• Lamp controls to strike and douse arc sources, calibrate devices

Programming Features

• Channel Functions
  • Non-intensity parameters set via numeric entry or pageable encoders
  • Encoders support software-controlled tactile response
  • Local display of colour and gobo images
  • Colour matching to gel selector
  • Colour Path, colour tinting and colour spectrum tools.
  • Apply discrete time and delay per channel parameter
     
• Palette and Preset Functions
  • Record and Update
  • Toggle display to absolute data
  • Up to 999 decimal values may be inserted between any two whole numbers
     
• Effects
  • Create live or blind
  • Pattern-based relative dynamic effects
  • Absolute effects
  • Step effects
  • Channel level overrides
  • Cue level overrides
  • Entry mode determines how parameters enter effects
  • Exit mode determines how parameters depart effects
     
• Cue Recording
  • Cue List HTP/LTP Intensity
  • Cue List Priority and Background Priority
  • Cue List Assert
  • Fader as progress controller, manual or intensity master
  • Record manual values or channels in use
  • Auto playback of recorded cues
  • Referenced or auto-mark instructions
  • Block at cue or parameter level
  • Assert at cue or parameter level
  • All-fade flag
  • Follow or hang times
  • Out of sequence link
  • Loop functions
  • Cue level parameter category timing
  • 20-part multi-part cues
  • Cue-level rate override
  • Mark flags for Auto or Referenced and Referenced Priority Marks
  • Up to 999 decimal cues between each two whole-numbered cues
  • Execute List
    • Triggers snapshot
    • Triggers macros
    • Triggers go of other cues
    • Syncs go to multiple cue lists
    • Show-control triggers
    • Analog triggers
       
  • Update and Update Trace functions
  • Undo record and delete
     
• Submaster Recording and Playback
  • 999 additive or inhibitive submasters
  • Bump button timing for fade up/dwell/fade out
  • Assert/Channel select button
  • Exclusive or Shielded Mode
  • Background enable/disable
  • Restore to background or minimum value
  • LTP/HTP intensity
  • Fader as progress controller or intensity master
  • Bump button to mark NPs
  • Priority and Background Priority status
  • Motorized faders match level across all devices and when paging
  • Submaster mapping on the fly
     
• Curves
  • Assignable in patch to modify dimmer output ramp
  • Assignable at cue or cue part level to modify intensity crossfade profile or non-intensity parameter ramping

• Two individually configurable ethernet ports
• ETCNet2, Net3 (powered by ACN), Art-Net and Avab UDP output protocols
• Four DMX/RDM ports
• Contact-closure triggers via D-Sub connector
• Two video connectors support display-port external displays (1280x1024) with optional single-touch or multi-touch screen control
• USB multipurpose (five ports)
• ETCpad - Portable Access Device (via Ethernet)
• OSC Transmit/Receive
• UDP Transmit/Receive
• MIDI TimeCode, MIDI Show Control through Gateway
• SMPTE TimeCode through Gateway
• Contact closure (12 analog inputs, 12 SPDT contact outputs, RS-232) through Gateway

• AC input (100 - 240V at 50/60 Hz)
• Power consumption (less external monitors) approximately 1A at 230V

• Dimensions: HxWxD 104x744x362
• Weight: 7,4kg